peddler

According to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, the word peddler is identified as a noun. It’s defined as a  “person who offers merchandise for sale along the streets or from door to door”. In the first paragraph of Malcolm X,”Coming to an awareness of language” it states, “I guess that’s why, unable to do anything else, I soon began writing to people I had known the hustling world, such as Sammy the Pimp, John Hughes, the gambling house owner, the thief Jumpsteady, and several dope peddlers.” Malcolm was trying to explain the people he knew in the hustling world which were mostly street thugs.